In the opening to her essay on being a “naked family,” Jess Spiring recounts a story about a time she left her daughters with a friend who, while babysitting, wanted to take a shower. The girls, Spiring writes, begged to join in. She is delighted and proud of them. Should she be? »7/23/15 5:20pm 7/23/15 5:20pm

Today Cupcakes and Cashmere blogger Emily Schuman launched her new clothing line, which bears the same name as her website, on both Nordstrom.com and Shopbop. Merchandise is selling swiftly, so if you wear a size eight or smaller, make haste! »7/06/15 10:15pm 7/06/15 10:15pm

About four years ago, after half a lifetime of irregular cycles, a new gynecologist identified the shadowy barnacles invading the ultrasoundscreen. “They’re cysts. It’s going to be very difficult for you to have children without intervention,” she said casually as I buttoned my jeans, “but we’ll cross that bridge… »6/26/15 8:10pm 6/26/15 8:10pm

Are you ready for yet another inane and completely arbitrary method of determining whether or not you’ve got a #bikinibody? It seems that the thigh gap is out and we’ve moved on to the #bellybuttonchallenge. We are monsters. We deserve nothing. »6/17/15 5:15pm 6/17/15 5:15pm

If you’ve had a baby or plan to have one or know someone who might have a baby or already did — in other words, if you’re human — you’ve heard of the struggle to regain the “old self.” This is the person you were before a whole ‘nother person came along and the struggle to regain the old self is real. I spoke with my… »4/29/15 11:15pm 4/29/15 11:15pm

The first time I watched Botched, it was with equal levels of shock and shameful fascination. The premiere episode featured a woman with a lumpy uni-boob. Subsequent episodes: a woman whose ass implant flipped, a Justin Bieber wannabe, Janice Dickinson and a woman whose tragic tummy tuck had repositioned… »4/14/15 4:00pm 4/14/15 4:00pm

A UK children's health expert says one way to fight bad body image among girls is for schools to encourage boys to tell girls that they are attracted to qualities other than sheer slenderness. Uh... has this guy ever MET any teenagers? I can see approximately 50,000 ways for this to go wrong. »3/18/15 10:10am 3/18/15 10:10am

Men who have small penises are prone to anxiety about their body image and their performance. That's why a Yorkshire poet by the name of Ant Smith is throwing a party to celebrate tiny peens of all shapes and sizes. He's charging people admission based on their length—the shorter the dick, the smaller the entry fee. »2/20/15 4:45pm 2/20/15 4:45pm

I'm embarrassed about all the time I've spent thinking about my weight. No one has ever told me I needed to lose any. Doctors mark my weight "average," and aside from a few middle school incidents, friends, family, and strangers have been positive about my body. But I'm not always happy with my appearance. Although I…»2/04/15 2:30pm 2/04/15 2:30pm

The private women's college Bryn Mawr emailed a group of students late last week encouraging them to join the new school-sponsored weight loss program. Students received the email based on their elevated body mass index, data that was mined from their medical records collected by the college's Health Center. »1/30/15 3:00pm 1/30/15 3:00pm

Why do kids have to be so damn adorable and uncorrupted by society's stupid, unrealistic standards? This video PSA asks 50 people what they'd change about their bodies. And while the adults were predictably self-critical, the kids said they'd want stuff like superpowers and wings.»11/05/14 1:50pm 11/05/14 1:50pm

Boobs: What is there to say about them that hasn't been said? Turns out, quite a lot — from women. And if us gals have our way about the girls, we will be monopolizing the conversation about our boobs from here to eternity, which is kind of nice, seeing as how we've had so little say in their presentation up to now.»9/13/14 2:00pm 9/13/14 2:00pm

Today in What's Wrong With Your Body: Belly buttons! Surgeons at the University of Singapore have analyzed a whole bunch of them to find out what makes them perfect and guess what? Whatever it is is probably the opposite of what you have. HATE YOURSELF, YOU MONSTER. »8/26/14 3:10pm 8/26/14 3:10pm

The fitness and tabloid industries make tons and tons of dough off the idea that if you can just find the right combo of Soul Cycle and kale chips and chia seed pudding and intentional living, YOU TOO can have Jennifer Aniston's exact abs. The truth, of course, is that you probably can't. You can only have YOUR abs. … »8/07/14 4:20pm 8/07/14 4:20pm